affirmation

Other forms of affirmation

plural

affirmations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about affirmation

What does affirmation mean?

affirmation means "a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in affirmation?

affirmation has 4 syllables: af-fir-ma-tion. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /ˌæfɚˈmeɪʃən/.

What is another word for affirmation?

Close synonyms include avowal, avouchment, assertion, statement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of affirmation?

The recorded antonyms are reversal.

Is affirmation a common word?

affirmation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with affirmation?

29 words rhyme with affirmation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.